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born: 09-08-1968
birth place: Chicago, Illinois, USA
As a youngster, Anderson aspired to becoming a marine biologist, but this career plan was sidetracked. By a curious stroke of fate, she instead discovered the cure for her teenage angst when she enrolled in a community theatre programme and began acting at high school. Anderson subscribes to the philosophy that “everything happens for a reason”, making it appropriate that the trials and tribulations of her teen years led her stormily, but inevitably, to her future love of and career in performance. Her mother Rosemary has described her utter astonishment at watching her punk rocker daughter take to Shakespeare, performing an extract from Romeo and Juliet, assigned as class work, with utter ease and fluency. There was no doubt in the minds of anyone watching her acting that they were witnessing a star in the making.
When the acting bug took a firm hold on Anderson, her life miraculously turned around. Her grades improved, along with her attitude, and she was promptly voted “Most Improved Student”. After graduating from City High School, she enrolled for acting classes at the renowned DePaul University’s Goodman Theatre, where she scored a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. Gillian was soon on her way, for the very next summer, she was picked to attend a workshop run by the National Theatre of Great Britain at Cornell in Ithaca, New York. Very shortly afterwards, she landed her first plum role in the off-Broadway production “Absent Friends” in 1991, winning a Theater World Award for her performance in this play. More stage plays followed, along with a couple of student films and a low-budget flick called ‘The Turning’, before Anderson decided to get serious about movie acting, relocating to L.A.
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